[California state senator Leland] Yee was shackled at the ankles when he appeared in court Wednesday afternoon with 19 other defendants. His demeanor was downcast, and he looked nervously into the packed gallery.

Yee was charged with six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license. If convicted on all the counts, he faces up to 125 years in prison.

A former gang leader with ties to San Francisco’s Chinatown who was praised for cleaning up his public image after serving more than a decade in prison now faces up to 95 years behind bars on money-laundering and other charges.

The [latest] shooting came just hours after hundreds of people took to the streets to protest Albuquerque police fatally shooting a homeless camper in the Sandia foothills on March 16, the 36th shooting involving police since 2010.

A group reported to be the international cyber-activist hackers Anonymous posted a YouTube video threatening a cyberattack against the city over the foothills shooting, calling officers “militarized thugs.”

“From where I sit, I see a department that is in crisis, if not chaos,” said [Rory] Lancman, a first-term councilman from Queens.

“Mr. [Jerome] Murdough’s personal tragedy epitomizes almost all that’s wrong with the city’s corrections policies, its homelessness policies and problems with its policies on dealing with people with mental illness.”

[Mayor Patrick] Cannon was arrested Wednesday and accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen who wanted to do work with North Carolina’s largest city.

He resigned Wednesday evening, less than six months after taking office.